Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthornewas an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 July 1804
CountryUnited States of America
happiness wish looks
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!
death world biographies
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
travel technology men
Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?
time rome cities
How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
humanity letters spheres
It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
attributes
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.
arrows fire arms
Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.
speak nonsense gods-will
Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it.
dream writing men
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
sunshine long unity
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.
honey bees sometimes
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
spiritual may form
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.
death appreciation character
It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.
house may spirit
A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.